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Creators, Conquerors, and Citizens - A History of Ancient Greece (Hardcover)
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Creators, Conquerors, and Citizens - A History of Ancient Greece (Hardcover)
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"We Greeks are one in blood and one in language; we have temples to
the gods and religious rites in common, and a common way of life."
Herodotus Throughout the course of ancient Greek civilization,
there always existed a sense of shared culture among the many Greek
communities scattered throughout the Mediterranean. During the
Classical (479-338) and Hellenistic (338-30) periods, the countless
individual poleis of the Archaic period gradually came together in
leagues and alliances, and finally were more or less united when
they fell under the Roman empire. But what is fascinating about
this process is how much resistance there was to it. The Greeks
found it impossible to unify when faced with common enemies. Even
under Roman rule the Greek cities still bickered. Acts of union -
going back to the legendary Trojan War - were widely celebrated,
but made little practical difference. If the Greeks knew that they
were kin, why is Greek history so often the history of their
internecine wars and other forms of competition with one another?
This is the question acclaimed historian Robin Waterfield sets out
to explore in Creators, Conquerors, and Citizens. This
extraordinary contradiction - the recognition that they were all
Greeks, but the deep-seated reluctance to unify - is at the heart
of this ambitious new history. The culmination of a lifetime of
research, Waterfield gives a comprehensive account of seven hundred
years, from the emergence of the Greeks around 750 BCE to the
downfall of the last of the Greco-Macedonian kingdoms in 30 BCE,
looking at political, military, social, and cultural history.
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